Abstract
Marksmanship, a key cornerstone of military training, is one area of military assessment that includes standardized quantifiable measures. However, assessment of marksmanship in a traditional live-fire setting can be costly, time consuming, and dangerous, while frequently only providing rudimentary objective measures of performance. This research created an enhanced combined marksmanship assessment methodology, which builds on earlier static and dynamic methodologies. The successful portions of previous methods, to include static and dynamic shooting with acquisition assessments, were integrated and additional pertinent assessment areas were added (i.e., targets of varying height and increased distance to force gross movements in transitions across engagements), while minimizing execution time and still using a mobile, low-cost weapon simulator. This methodology is executable in any setting, is easy to assemble, provides streamlined metrics on the entire marksmanship process across two critical shooting styles, and can track changes in marksmanship across various performance periods throughout a training cycle.
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This research was funded by Combat Capabilities Development Command, Soldier Center research program 18-101. The authors would also like to thank the data collection team and the program coordinators for ensuring smooth execution of these events. Most importantly, the authors would like to acknowledge the Soldiers who participated in this study.
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Brown, S.A.T., Villa, J., Hussey, E.K., Ramsay, J.W., Blake Mitchell, K. (2020). Simulated Marksmanship Performance Methodology: Assessing Lethality, Mobility and Stability Across the Preparation, Execution and Recovery Stages of a Military Field Training Exercise. In: Cassenti, D. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Simulation. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20148-7_1
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